The quality gap between AI and human economics research is driven primarily by inferior idea generation, which accounts for 71% of the difference.
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The Ideation Bottleneck: Decomposing the Quality Gap Between AI-Generated and Human Economics Research
The quality gap between AI and human economics research is driven primarily by inferior idea generation, which accounts for 71% of the difference.